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1776–1846 England
Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, PC (12 December 1776 – 6 July 1846) was a celebrated English lawyer who successfully defended the then Queen of the United Kingdom, Caroline of Brunswick, at her trial for adultery in 1820. As Chief Justice of Common Pleas, an office he held with distinction from 1829 to 1846, he was responsible for the inception of the special verdict "Not Guilty by reason of insanity" at the trial of Daniel M'Naghten.
Also known as: Nicholas Conyngham, Nicholas Tindal
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Every Court is the guardian of its own records, and master of its own practice.
Scales v. Cheese (1844)
Judicial decisions in Courts of justice are ranked by Lord Hale as one of the grounds or constituents of the common law.
Balme v. Hutton (1833)
The intention of the testator is the polar star by which we must be guided.
Wilce v. Wilce (1831)
We should not be too strict in construing instruments or contracts generally drawn up on the spur of the moment.
Newbery v. Armstrong (1829)
It is between the stirrup and the ground, Brother; but you may amend by replying.
Spincer v. Spincer (1841)
Illegality is not to be presumed; it is to be alleged and proved when it does not appear on the face of the instrument itself.
Lord Howden v. Simpson (1839)
Immemorial enjoyment is the most solid of all titles.
In the Matter of the Serjeants-at-Law (1840)
There is no reason for assuming, that the time of medical men and attornies is more valuable than that of others whose livelihood depends on their own exertions.
Lonergan v. The Royal Exchange Assurance (1831)
Whatever is injurious to the interests of the public is void, on the grounds of public policy.
Horner v. Graves (1831)
It is to be remembered that contracts in restraint of trade are in themselves, if nothing more appears to show them reasonable, bad in the eye of the law.
Horner v. Graves (1831)
It is fraud in law if a party makes representations which he knows to be false, and injury ensues, although the motives from which the representations proceeded may not have been bad.
Foster v. Charles (1830)
Whatever restraint is larger than the necessary protection of the party, can be of no benefit to either, it can only be oppressive; and if oppressive, it is, in the eye of the law unreasonable.
Horner v. Graves (1831)
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